Book Review - Desperate by Sarah Mae and Sally Clarkson

Attention Moms everywhere!  
There is hope for the mom who needs to breathe!

I have found a fantastic book for moms that I wish I'd had seventeen years ago when my kids were young. Sarah Mae and Sally Clarkson have discovered a heartbeat of moms that I haven't seen much on book shelves.

This book is different because it isn't one woman telling other moms how to be a "better" mom.  There are no lists of ideas to try, or new recipes that all kids will eat, or discipline that works!  This book is DIFFERENT.

My favorite thing about Desperate is Sarah Mae's crystal-clear honesty.  She shares her heart openly - even the stuff we don't like to say out loud.  Like,

• "I just can't be a mother today."
• "I just want to be alone ..."
• "Lately it's been easier to put on the T.V. than put on being a good mother."
• "I am so selfish!  Every day I see it in myself more and more."
• "When my life feels overwhelming, I escape to the Internet."

The second thing I love about Desperate is Sally Clarkson's

Un- happy anniversary

Can you believe it has been 40 years?

Is it possible to count the true cost after so much time?

On January 22nd, 1973 the courts of the United States decided to legalize abortion.  The famous case of Roe vs Wade changed the lives of many.  Every woman and child (and family) that has been affected by that decision since has their own story of cost to tell the world.  I am certain that when the decision was made 40 years ago with 7-2 vote in favor that no one knew what it would cost us as a whole.

On my blog I advertised and raved about the movie October Baby. I hope that you had a chance to watch that.  It was a compelling story about a young woman who survived an abortion attempt and the long journey to healing and recovery she had to take.  At the end of the DVD movie is an amazing testimony of the actress (Shari Rigsby) who played the birth mother in the film.  She talks about her own experience

You are not alone

It happened again.

Today, our community suffers another blow as a young man took his own life on Tuesday.  He was 19 years old and lived in a nearby town but his family is a key part of our little community and many are left asking the difficult and troubling questions.

Why?

I know I have asked this question before on my blog and I ask it again ... is our community cursed with this awful epidemic or is this happening everywhere?  I have lived here for almost five years and in that time have witnessed the shattered lives left behind by as many suicides.

Likely, many of you remember the headlines that rocked our nation in October, 2012 when a British Columbia girl posted a YouTube video of her pain and distress, then died from suicide ten days later.  Her name ...